BORGHESE

Sienese family afterwards settled at Rome and distinguished as patrons of art. Camillo B., who became cardinal, 1596, and pope as Paul V., 1605, bought the B. Palace and built the B. Villa at Rome early in XVII. cent. C amillo Filippo Ludovico i B. (1775-1832) m. Napoleon’s beautiful sister Pauline, was created rince of Guastella (1805), and sold to apoleon the art treasures, most of which are now in the Louvre, of the B. Villa; he separated from Pauline after Napoleon’s fall. His nephew, Camillo, was War Minister, 1848; Paolo was compelled to sell the remaining po e ions of the family in 1892, and while Pope Leo VIII. added its muniments to the Vatican MMS., the Ital. government acquired the Palace and valuable collections of paintings.